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Thanks to your help I have been able to fix the atrocious yellow banner that would show up in every header of every message : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1365394

(If you're a casual reader on the internet looking for a how to on Linux in order to customize the layout with CSS the linked question's last message details the procedure step by step.)

Now there is a brand new red banner taking even more vertical estate that show up under the olde banner.

To which class does this one belong to ? What kink of CSS trickery can I use to either change that one's color or even get rid of it ?

Greetings, folks!

I am fairly new to using an IMAP connection between Thunderbird and the host mail server, HostMonster. There's behavior that I could use your help understanding. First, I can send and receive mail just fine. Basic configuration works. The issue is this:

When incoming messages appear in Thunderbird's inbox for the IMAP account, I drag (move) them to an appropriate local folder for archiving. That works fine. The message disappears from the account's inbox and now is in that local folder. If, however, I log in to the hosting company's web email interface (roundcube), and look at the IMAP inbox, the moved messages are still there, but grayed out. They are marked as deleted, but still (in some nebulous state) in the inbox. I can manually select then delete the grayed-out messages, and they go away permanently.

If, on the other hand, I select a message in Thunderbird's inbox and delete it, the message disappears from both Thunderbird's IMAP inbox and the web email interface (roundcube) inbox. That's as expected.

SO, the question is whether there is a Thunderbird configuration setting that I've missed, which will actually delete the messages from the server's inbox?

Thanks very much for your help.

Hey Guys,

can i use the thundernest/policy-templates/ to automatically set up a User Account in a 2019 Windows Domain?

when an employee in our company logs on to a computer, he should automatically get his mailbox connected in thunder bird for firstname.lastname@company . de firstname.lastname is identical to the windows username can this be implemented with your group guidelines if so how?

if not is there an official solution for this i have not found anything.

best wishes

I have Thunderbird set to minimize to the task bar, but I often hit the X to close, as that's what I did with Eudora (which I sorely miss, Thunderbird is definitely subpar in comparison). After 6 months, I still find myself doing it. Is there a way to alert when I hit close? I'm not sure I want to download the add-on to minimize on close since it has unrestricted access.

Using Thunderbird 102.9.0 (64-bit), Windows 10

To clarify what I mean in my title: I've set up a message filter that is supposed to search in the body that contains a word. I know the word is in the body, but yet the filter is not being triggered.

I have tried a different word that has spaces before and after and it seems to work, so I guess that's the problem, but how can I allow thunderbird to work when there's different characters before or after the word also?

I used to be able to see all my inboxes in one folder. Since the upgrade, a couple of my inboxes aren't showing up. I have to expand all of my inboxes to see if I have new messages. I missed some important emails because they always used to come to my unified inbox. How do I get them all in one unified inbox?

Hello dear Mozilla (or should I say Thunderbird) crew and community,

Some months ago, in December 2022 I think, under Windows 10, my Firefox webbrowser got started whenever I started Thunderbird, showing a request for donation screen. Having enjoyed the benefits of Thunderbird for a long time, I thought it was reasonable to donate. I hoped the screen would disappear after this, but it didn't. I have searched for solutions to get rid of it, because it slows down TB whenever I want to look into my emails. But sofar, without success. The only things I DID find were that I can get rid of the screen under Linux (as a normal user). Under Windows I can start TB 'as Administrator' and then remove the URL (see below) from the settings. But as I recall it, it reappeared after a couple of restarts of TB even in this case. And starting TB as Administrator gives me no access to my emails which are stored under my user account. Removing the URL, by the way, can not be done through the normal settings screens. I had to go to the "hamburger" menu icon and then select Settings, scroll all the way down and then click on the Configuration Editor button. There I found these three related parameters and their values:

app.donation.eoy.url = https//www.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/102.0/eoy/ app.donation.version = 1 app.donation.eoy.version.viewed = 1

My questions:

1) Why can't I remove the URL for the "end-of-year" donation screen as a normal Windows user?

  Every time I delete it, it's back the next time I start TB.
 (for God's sake, it's almost April by now and I DID donate at year's end ;-)

2) The file 'prefs.js' in my user mail profile/directory seems to hold part of my settings, but it states "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". Could I define a 'user.js' file to actually circumvent my inability to remove the URL through the Configuration Editor? 3) Or even better: what IS the right way to remove the donation screen in my situation; or put differently: is this an error (f.e. with user rights) in the Windows version of TB not present in the Linux version?

Thank you in advance for your help or suggestions,

Steijn van Essen From i8088 to i7-980X in 25 years and still waiting …

This has been driving me mad for years.

I reply to an email in the usual way, i.e. clicking the Reply button on the same window as the received email. I start typing the reply and the default font (in my case, Arial) is applied.

However, after hitting ENTER twice to start a new paragraph, the font somehow changes to "Variable Width" - which has a smaller, fainter and less readable appearance.

I tried to correct this on Edit > Settings > General and changing the font there to Arial. So now I have Arial my default for composing new emails and in general.

After this settings change I replied to a business email. Despite all the reply text appearing in Arial through the composition process, after checking the sent email in my Sent folder, I see that only the first paragraph of that email was in Arial. All the rest of that email was in this stupid Variable Width font . . . This half-assed appearance of my last email is not likely to help make a good impression on my supplier company !

Can someone proficient please advise how to stop this vexing tendency of TB to revert to Variable Width font and small font-size.

Tamjk.

I have my TB email on the C: drive, which is an SSD. I would like to have archives stored on the D: drive, which has lots of free space.

• 1. Moving existing archives would be nice....

• 2. Future archives stored on D: is most critical.

I've asked before and not gotten an answer (at least one that I can act on). Any help appreciated.

Mark

Question edited to insert link to previous topic archived here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1388018

I would like to disable threaded view on all folders and subfolders. How can I do that without having to manually change the view settings for every single folder and subfolder?

Hi Recently changed computer, now running Windos 11 and installed TB. When I type an email, all words are underlined in red, even though they are not mis spelt. I downloaded the English UK dictionary. If I right click in the email, it shows English dictionary ticked. It also shows Check spelling , ticked What am I missing? Thanks

My last update Thunderbird (111/112) changed layout UI to "Supernova" (I think, it's changed now), which uses 2 lines per message (with no more detail Tabs)

I HATE IT

I want my compact 1 message 1 line back

How do I do that? Is that even possible?

Hello, Is TB in the future going to be able to access Godaddy Office 365 mail exchange without Owl. I have many email accounts (different domains) on Godaddy and it seems I have to purchase a Owl license for each domain email, is this correct.

Thank you JR

I get emails via Thunderbird on both my iphone and laptop. Deleting from one does not delete on the other. So I have to go through emails twice deleting the same ones. What control am I missing?

Hello,

I have created an HTML signature for my account which is always inserted. So far so good. However, each time the character -- is also inserted, which according to the support pages HTML signature is obviously even intentional. [[Signatures|https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/signaturen#w_html-signaturen]]

For me the question is, how do I make it disappear? Does anyone have a tip for this?

Thanks in advance

A few old threads on this such as https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1061256 Can someone confirm that clearing the the training data will fix this? I'm having this issue!

OSX Ventura 13.1, 102.9.0 (64-bit), Gmail imap, when Tbird applies filter to move message a strikethrough copy remains in inbox. A non strikethrough copy is in allmail. When I try to delete the ST copy in inbox it just removes the ST and the message remains. The left click menu delete works. None of these actions have any effect on the moved message. Messages are moved to Local Folders. When I select an unread message in the inbox it immediately changes to ST status. No messages have ST in Allmail. I tried to set the delete action to move messages to a "New trash" folder and most of the inbox vanished. The "Inbox" appears to be worthless and undependable. All I am trying to do is to have my filters work like they used to when I was using POP3. My wife's windoze machine is now having similar issues.

I am trying to add a second email address (Proton.me) to TB. I have used my gmail address in TB for years. The configuration is found at email provider (proton) - fine - but I get the message that probably wrong configuration (found, so not that), username or password - neither of those - I know what I am trying to add. Can somebody please help? ps. I am not very techie.